Kentucky Farm Time Capsule:Castleton Farm

By Natalie Voss

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Many subjects of our Kentucky Farm Time Capsule series thus far have seen their development mirror that of Lexington as the top Thoroughbred nursery in the country. The oldest Thor-oughbred farms may sometimes trace their roots to a family homestead in the late 1700s, maybe to use as pastureland for cows, and then make the switch to racehorses, never to look back. Castleton Farm (now known as Castleton Lyons) saw top horses of at least three different breeds fill its pastures, and it distinguished itself in more than one sport.

The property now located at the corner of Newtown Pike and Iron Works was established in 1793 by Virginia native John Breckinridge, who purchased 2,467 acres. Breckinridge named the property Cabell’s Dale, presumably for his wife’s family. Mary “Polly” Cabell was part of a prominent political family in Virginia’s early history, and Breckinridge himself would go on to serve in Kentucky’s legislature and the U.S. Senate be-fore becoming U.S. Attorney General under Thomas Jefferson.

Breckinridge grew corn, wheat, hay, and hemp on the property, and also started a Thoroughbred breeding operation, mixing English and American bloodlines. Upon the marriage of his daughter Mary Ann to David Castleman, Breckinridge gifted the couple a portion of Cabell’s Dale which they renamed Castleton Farm. Castleman, who came from a long line of horsemen himself, built a Greek revival mansion on the farm in 1840 (which still exists today) and grew to love the land. Tragedy struck in 1816 when Mary Ann died giving birth to the couple’s first child. When the child died too, Castleman and the Breckinridges engaged in a nasty legal battle over the property.

Ultimately, one of Castleman’s sons from a later marriage would own the property and introduced Saddlebreds to the mix at Castleton. By the late 1800s, Castleton included two training tracks, 100 stalls, and even its own equine hospital. It was the perfect property for James R. Keene, who by then had enjoyed success in the Thoroughbred business as the owner of 1879 Belmont Stakes winner Spendthrift and 1881 Grand Prix de Paris winner Foxhall (the first American horse to win the race). Keene lent his Wall Street funding to Castleton and made it one of the most prominent studs in Kentucky. Accord-ing to a 1996 feature in Spur magazine, Castleton owned or bred 113 stakes winners between 1893 and 1911. Keene purchased brilliant but short-lived Domino, who sired Com-mando, sire of Peter Pan and Colin. The vision of Keene and manager Maj. Foxhall Daingerfield had a strong influence on Col. E.R. Bradley and therefore Idle Hour, another bloodstock force of the time.

When gambling was briefly outlawed in New York in 1910,

Keene began looking for a buyer for Castleton. He found inter-est in New York merchant David Look, and the old legend went that in their negotiations over the purchase, Look became frustrated at Keene’s lack of documentation for the farm. Look wanted a surveyor’s accounting of the real estate and acre-age. “I understand that, Mr. Look,” Keene is supposed to have said. “But you’re not buying real estate and acreage. You’re buying Castleton.”

Look constructed the now-iconic stone fence that surrounds Castleton, and turned the farm’s interests more intently to Standardbreds. Look struck gold when he bought broodmare Emily Ellen, who produced 14 foals, most of whom proved in-fluential on the breed. She was second dam of Spencer, 1928 Hambletonian winner.

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There are plenty of progenitors in the stud that can stake a rightful claim to being from an active stal-lion family, but few have so much of their page to be written in the near-immediate future as Not This Time.

The 5-year-old son of Giant’s Cause-way puts his first yearlings through the auction ring in 2019. One class ahead of him, his half-brother Li-am’s Map will see his first crop of 2-year-olds hit the track later this year. The two products of Grade 3-winning Trippi mare Miss Macy Sue covered a combined 580 mares in their respective first two books, meaning the sib-lings will have plenty of opportunities to help create a rising tide for each other.

Following a calamitous debut, Not This Time righted the ship in his second race to break his maiden by 10 lengths, going a mile at Ellis Park. He moved up in class and distance for his next effort, and recovered from a hopped start to win the G3 Iroquois Stakes at Churchill Downs by an au-thoritative 8 ¾ lengths.

Not This Time made his final start in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita Park, where he made a mid-pack move, and inched toward stretch leader Classic Em-pire, but he hit the wire a neck behind his rival. The effort was still enough to garner Not This Time a spot as a finalist for champion 2-year-old male, but he came out of the race with a soft tissue injury that ended his on-track career.

Retired to stud at Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., Not This Time found himself among the top of his class when

his first weanlings were offered dur-ing the 2018 fall mixed season. He finished fifth by gross among first-crop sires, with 18 foals bringing a combined $1,383,000 and an av-erage of $76,833. His colts were especially well-received, with nine changing hands for an average of $107,778.

Leading the way among Not This Time’s first weanlings was a colt out of The Cliff’s Edge mare Movie Star Magic who sold to BBN Stable for $160,000 at last year’s Keene-land November Breeding Stock

Sale. Movie Star Magic is a half-sister to G2 winner Tapi-ture and stakes winners Remit and Retap.

Before a single foal changed hands at auction, Not This Time received arguably the biggest endorsement of his young stallion career when breeder Clarkland Farm booked 2016 Broodmare of the Year Leslie’s Lady to be part of his second book.

Not This Time fits the golden cross of breeding Leslie’s Lady to a Storm Cat-line sire which has produced champion Beholder (by Henny Hughes) and G1 winners Into Mischief (by Harlan’s Holiday) and Mendelssohn (by Scat Daddy). His Storm Cat influence is closer up than the others as a pater-nal grandson through Giant’s Causeway, while the other G1 performers are three or more generations removed from the cornerstone sire.

Diving deep into Not This Time’s pedigree, his fifth dam is Ta Wee, a Hall of Famer and two-time champion sprinter in a time before the award was split by gender. PRS

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pattern. Growth rings can be indicative of a problem within the hoof capsule or may just be an external map of changes in activity, nutrition, or a systemic distur-bance that altered hoof growth at one time.

The average hoof on a healthy adult horse will grow from the coronary band to the ground in approximately one year. Alterations in hoof growth or quality such as laminitis can greatly affect growth rates. For example, the hoof wall at the toe may grow slower than the heels in both laminitic and clubfooted hooves while exhibiting a similar dished appearance.

Visually, the growth rings will appear small and tightly spaced at the toe and become wider and more pro-nounced toward the heels where the growth rate is more rapid. We describe these growth rings as being divergent. They are wider in one part of the hoof than another region. They can be also be wider at the toe than heels or even wider on the outside of the hoof than the inside or vice versa. These patterns tell us some-thing about the hoof and what forces, either internal or external, are causing growth differences in the hoof.

Wider (faster growth) at the toe than heels can mean the heels are compressed or compromised in some manner. We often see this pattern with negative pal-mar/plantar angled coffin bones. The hoof may also exhibit a rounded “bullnosed” appearance and the angle of the coronary band is higher than a normal hoof.

Rings that are divergent from one side of the hoof com-pared to the other may result from differential loading due to conformation or can result from more significant

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insults such as medial sinking or failure of the internal suspension of the hoof. Divergent rings can often result from overloading or imbalance of one portion or struc-ture in the hoof and can be improved through trimming and shoeing that reduces stress in the affected region.

Reading growth rings offers valuable information but is only part of the picture to overall hoof health. The rings that are visible are a history of where that hoof has been recently, but internally, a hoof can be catastrophically fail-ing without external signs having shown in the wall itself. Physical evaluation, a detailed history, and radiography remain the cornerstones for diagnosing hoof problems.

Scott Fleming attended farrier school and maintained a Quarter Horse-centric farrier business in Northeast and central Texas until moving to Lexington. He also served in the Marine Corps Infantry for four years. Fleming graduated from veterinary school at Texas A&M University in 2013. He is currently an associate veterinarian at Rood & Riddle. PRS

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Flameaway, a chestnut colt by Scat Daddy, has won on virtu-ally every surface: synthetic, turf, and dirt tracks that were fast, muddy or sloppy. If trainer Mark Casse asked him to, the Ontario-bred would probably run well on ice.

That’s how Katie Taylor-Marshall and her father, Taylor Made Farm’s Frank Taylor, first saw the colt at the 2016 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale.

Taylor-Marshall described the ground as a “sheet of ice,” when she took a look at Flameaway at the Penn Sales consignment, telling Ron Mitchell of Bloodhorse.com: “I was impressed with the way he walked. The other horses were sliding everywhere, but he was just super-determined, sure-footed and moving on, ice be damned.”

Taylor-Marshall was just beginning to expand the business model for the Bloodstock Investments partnership she was helping direct. Flameaway was the first short yearling the investment group purchased for pinhooking purposes, going to $150,000 to secure him. He turned out to be a win for both Bloodstock Investments and for John C. Oxley, who paid $400,000 to buy him seven months later at the Fasig-

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After a maiden victory on Tapeta at Woodbine, Flameaway won two off-the-turf stakes on muddy or sloppy dirt tracks as a 2-year-old, then took his 3-year-old debut on turf at Gulfstream Park. His biggest win came in the G3 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, which was followed by runner-up efforts in the G2 Tampa Bay Derby and G2 Blue Grass Stakes that put him in the G1 Kentucky Derby. He finished 13th behind Justify.

Flameaway went on the shelf in late August, coming out of G3 Smarty Jones at Parx with a cracked rib. “It was a strange thing,” Casse said. “His rib cage blew up.”

Oxley’s colt is back in training at Fair Grounds with as-sistant David Carroll, and Casse said the colt will likely surface in an allowance race at the New Orleans track or at Oaklawn Park.

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By the mid-1940s, Look had run into financial woes. Castle-ton’s fences were falling down; its barns were dilapidated. Frances Dodge Johnson, daughter of John Dodge of the automobile fortune, spied a diamond in the rough. Dodge had been riding Saddlebreds from a young age after the ac-tivity was prescribed by her doctors as physical therapy for a hand injury. She started a breeding program in her early twenties, and had three World Champion mares as her foundation. Dodge (who eventually remarried to Frederick van Lennep in 1949) bred Wing Commander at her Michi-gan base and transferred the World Champion Five-Gaited stallion to Castleton to begin his stud career.

Dodge also began dabbling in Standardbreds in the mid-1940s, using an eye for conformation to pick out future successes. Castleton-breds won Horse of the Year, Hamble-tonians, and Little Brown Jugs. All the while, she repaired barns and fences and built a brick stallion barn which is still used today, restoring Castleton to a new level of glory. Bret Hanover, winner of 35 straight races in the 1960s, would stand stud there, as would champion pacers Niatross and Abercrombie (sire of winners of $100 million).

The van Lenneps could not be talked into bringing Thor-oughbreds back to the property, however. The feature in Spur suggests van Lennep was teased by Thoroughbred stalwarts for her involvement in the flashy Saddlebreds,

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“Harness horses were a lot more fun,” she said. “You could go out and drive them. With a Thoroughbred, you’d watch him run a mile and go back to the barn and talk about what a helluva horse he was.”

After Frederick’s death in 1987, the farm was managed by John Cashman Jr. in the name of a family trust for more than a decade.

When Castleton came up for sale in 2000, a horseman once again saw potential in the property. Dr. Tony Ryan, owner of Europe’s Ryanair and Lyons Demesne in Ireland, had not been looking for such a large property, according to a 2003 Keeneland magazine feature, but the chance to buy the legendary Castleton was too good to pass up. Ryan added his own style to the property, refurbishing some barns and importing the enormous and intricate iron gates at the farm’s entrance from a fruit and vegetable market in London. He also changed the farm’s name to its modern-day moniker of Castleton Lyons.

Since Ryan’s takeover, Castleton Lyons has stood Malibu Moon, Bernstein, Wiseman’s Ferry, Gio Ponti, Justin Phil-lip, and others. Current president Shane Ryan took over upon his father’s death in 2007.

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Hip 874, Oh Mrs. G, Dark bay or brown mare by Offlee Wild x Mrs. Marcos, by Private Account, Property of Elite. A half-sister to three graded stakes producers, including G1 winner Zoftig. She sells in-foal to Practical Joke.

Hip 896, Quick Breeze, Dark bay or brown mare by Ghostzapper x Quick Temper, by A.P. Indy, consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. A half-sister to Preak-ness Stakes winner Cloud Computing, pregnant to Ma-clean’s Music.

Hip 897, Quick Call, Dark bay or brown mare by Maria’s Mon x Winner, by Horse Chestnut, consigned by Nursery Place, agent. From the family of third dam Personal Ensign, this mare is a half-sister to G3 winner Ocho Ocho Ocho and G2-placed Private Ensign.

Hip 948, Stallion Heiress, Dark bay or brown mare by Exchange Rate x Mendocino Beano, by Smart Strike, con-signed by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. An Ontario-bred stakes-winning half-sister to stakes-placed Conquest Fleetfeet. She sells as a racing or broodmare prospect.

Hip 953, Bay colt by Midnight Lute x Stop the Lights, by Storm Cat, consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. A half to G2-placed Lightscameraaction. His dam is a half to G1 winner Cross Traffic, out of G1-winning second dam Stop Traffic.

Hip 958, Street Sweets, Bay mare by Street Sense x Simply Delightful, by Speightstown, consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. A winning daughter of a half to Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming and G1 winner Hot Dixie Chick. She sells in foal to Bodemeister.

Hip 1010, Dark bay or brown filly by Temple City x Aspen Mountain, by Chief Seattle, consigned by Vinery Sales, agent for Spendthrift Farm. G2 winner Bolo is a full sibling, and she’s a half to G3-placed Let Me Go First.

Hip 1394, Awesome Fleet, Bay mare by Awesome Again x Maggy Hawk, by Hawkster, consigned by Lane’s End, agent. Champion Afleet Alex is one of three black type-earn-ing siblings to this mare, along with three stakes-producing sisters. She is pregnant by Dialed In.

Hip 1439, Curriculum, Bay mare by Danzig x Macoumba, by Mr. Prospector, consigned by Gainesway, agent. This half-sister to Malibu Moon is the dam of G2 winner and sire Temple City. She sells in-foal to Empire Maker.

Hip 1482, Bay filly by Honor Code x Follow Your Bliss, by Thunder Gulch, consigned by Lane’s End, agent. A Virginia-bred half-sister to G3 winner Daddy Nose Best. PRS

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